What is the difference between Traditional HBOT and Bag Chambers?
The marketing of bag chambers is based on traditional HBOT whereas breathing 100% oxygen while exposed to an increased pressure can correct many serious health problems. However, soft chambers are only designed and approved to use air, not 100% oxygen. The FDA specifically states no enriched air is to be used in bag chambers. However, many end-users of the bag chambers utilize oxygen concentrators with a mask or nasal cannula, to deliver 40% to 95% of oxygen to the patient inside the bag chamber. We do not endorse this practice. In addition, most bag chambers can only reach 4 psig of pressure (which equals 1.27 ATA or 9 feet of depth). Because of the limited pressure and limited oxygen delivery, an insufficient physiological response occurs, if at all. To provide the proper physiological response, a patient must be inside a traditional or hard shell hyperbaric oxygen chamber that is built and approved to use 100% oxygen and can go to pressures greater than 7.5 psi (which equals 1.51 AT
